On the surface, Claudia Piñeiro's All Yours seems like a familiar story—a loving wife, Inés, discovers her husband is cheating on her, and vows revenge. Despite a plot that could have been pulled from any number of novels, Piñeiro's book is anything but ordinary.

All Yours is told through several different narrative perspectives. Much of the events are related by Inés, in tangential waves of thought that evade concrete detail. These meandering first-person sections are interspersed with chapters of snappy, clipped dialogue between Inés' daughter Lali, and her friend. Devoid of any exposition, the conversations propel the plot forward at a rapid pace, while Inés' sections bring the action to a grinding halt. Other chapters are told by a third-person narrator whose focus shifts from Inés to her husband Ernesto. Finally, Piñeiro hints toward an unpleasant ending for Inés and Ernesto by including evidence documents from a trial.

These shifting narrative perspectives add depth to Inés' character—reading only her first-person chapters, she seems to be a loyal wife who acts in the best interest of her family. Certainly her devotion to her husband has no limits, making his infidelity appear to be a horrible crime. However, the other narrators display Inés' non-existent grasp on reality. Ernesto plans to leave her for a much younger woman, and Lali plots to run away. Completely oblivious, Inés has no idea that the two people to whom she is closest both want her out of their lives. Even worse, Ernesto and Lali are shown to be justified in their actions; any sympathy Inés initially garners from the reader disappears as her atrocious attitude toward her family becomes clear.

Piñeiro's creative use of narration, coupled with an ending that is as shocking as it is perfectly fitting, makes All Yours a compelling short novel. What could have been an overly-used story is instead a fresh look at a familiar topic: infidelity, and the lengths to which one woman will go for justice.